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Public Health (International) – (M.A.)
University of Leeds
Faculty of Medicine & Health| Application Deadline: | Recommended by June | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 7,220 - ≈ € 14,620 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Leeds / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Picture the scene - a health worker sits in a health centre consultation room, facing a long queue of people who have come to be treated. The health worker is committed, but has little time to treat each person. Many cases of disease could have been prevented completely; for example, by immunisation or improved sanitation. Moreover many sick people come late or do not come at all to health facilities.
Public health professionals aim to understand the health needs and intervene to improve the health of their communities. This includes the whole population, not just those who come to health facilities. Professionals involved in developing health programmes and services tackling the causes of common diseases need to have a public health perspective. This perspective considers the organisation and provision of health care services and the wider socio-economic determinants of health.
First offered here in 1984, the Master of Public Health (International) allows you to gain the public health knowledge and skills needed to develop improved health programmes and services in low-middle income countries. It is suitable for district, provincial and national health officers, and other specific health programme officers such as mother and child health, as well as those intending to teach public health.
Contents
The programme will:
* Provide an international learning environment, with staff and students drawn from many countries, within which students drawn from a variety of professional backgrounds around the world benefit and learn from their collective professional and cultural experiences
* Offer opportunities to develop the ability to think analytically; a capacity for independent learning; the capability to complete a challenging, extended piece of independent study and an awareness of the importance of and opportunities for continuing professional development
* Offer flexibility, enabling students to attain high levels of professional skill whilst also pursuing individual study interests in a learning environment where research informs teaching with optional module choices and dissertation opportunities reflect shared staff and student research interests.
And also:
* Introduce the essential learning skills for postgraduate level study within a structured framework with particular emphasis on the challenges facing those returning to study
* Present health and health systems in an international policy context and provide a clear appreciation of the conceptual framework within which public health policy and management is located
* Teach the essential skills required to improve existing and build new health services, programmes and related management systems to improve the public health of the communities amongst whom the participants work with emphasis on epidemiology and statistics and evidence-based public health interventions
* Build upon the core skills and knowledge acquired early in the programme by choosing areas of study from the list of optional modules in specialist fields of public health, planning and management
* Introduce the concept of the Learning Portfolio which strongly encourages a reflective approach to learning and can form the basis of career-long independent learning
* Develop a capacity for independent learning and an awareness of the importance of continued professional development
* Offer the opportunity to plan, initiate, execute and complete a substantial piece of independent research, in the form of the dissertation, within a supportive framework which provides specific research training and preparation for the dissertation.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Candidates will either be medical graduates or health professionals with a good honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject. They will normally have at least two years of international public health experience. Extensive experience in relevant public health work may exceptionally constitute an alternative basis for admission.
If your first language is not English you will be asked to provide evidence that you have a suitable ability in the various skills of English by providing details of a University recognised English language qualification.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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